Inside IT Switzerland

https://www.inside-it.ch/

Swiss IT trade press; primary reporting on Swiss incidents (translate findings to English in brief). WebFetch returns HTTP 403 (re-confirmed 2026-05-08); the RSS feed at /feed.rss also 403's. REQUIRED FETCH METHOD: `python3 tools/fetch_source.py url https://www.inside-it.ch/`. | 2026-06-10: RSS bridge route https://www.inside-it.ch/rss.xml confirmed working via fetch_source.py url (resolves the prior 404 gap); no in-window security incidents on the feed this run. |. | 2026-06-20 full audit (v2.62): live=Y, drill=Y. FETCH → feed https://www.inside-it.ch/rss.xml 5 (via bridge; returns dated Swiss IT items, summary present) then bridge: python3 tools/fetch_source.py url <article-url> for body. Translate findings to English in the brief. AVOID: WebFetch 403s the homepage and the feed, skip WebFetch entirely. The old /feed.rss path 403'd historically; /rss.xml is the working feed. | 2026-07-05 (run 1208Z): rss_url field set to the working https://www.inside-it.ch/rss.xml path (S2 re-confirmed /feed 403s, /rss.xml 200 via bridge); metadata-drift correction only, no tier/status change. | 2026-07-05 admiralty audit: C, regional Swiss IT news aggregator, general/business-heavy, re-reports; kept for CH relevance. HIGH->C, stays active. | 2026-07-14 intel run: RECIPE CONFIRMED (S2): https://www.inside-it.ch/rss.xml reachable via DIRECT GET (200); article-detail pages still 403 to both WebFetch and jina. Use the feed for title/summary; article bodies remain unrecoverable. | 2026-07-14 (1210Z run): RSS https://www.inside-it.ch/rss.xml reachable via DIRECT GET (HTTP 200) on two runs today; the prior 403 rotation-gap history is stale; RSS usable for headline/discovery. Individual article-detail pages still 403 to both WebFetch and jina reader, so full bodies require a corroborating outlet (heise/swisscybersecurity.net). Keep active; fetch_method rss. | 2026-07-14: RSS again reachable (HTTP 200) and contributed the IFAGE/DragonForce item; article-detail pages still 403 to WebFetch and the jina reader. fetch_method stays rss. | 2026-07-28: HTTP 403 to every transport again this run. No demotion, transport/anti-bot block, not content death. | 2026-08-02: recovered. Rotation-priority after two failing runs (403); the RSS feed https://www.inside-it.ch/rss.xml returned 200 with 20 items via the bridge and the 403 did not recur. Failure counters reset; no in-window item, so counted as a quiet period. | 2026-08-05: RECIPE FIX, article pages still Cloudflare-403 to both the browser-UA fetch and the reader, but the RSS feed at https://www.inside-it.ch/rss.xml returns HTTP 200 with 20 dated items and usable summaries. Use the feed for DISCOVERY and recover article bodies from a corroborating publisher; it was the discovery surface for the VBS/RUAG item this run. Do not demote on the article-page 403. | 2026-08-12: article body 403s on direct WebFetch and on the bridge including its jina-reader fallback; RSS listing remains readable. Stories originating here may be recoverable via publisher-group siblings (swisscybersecurity.net / netzwoche.ch / it-markt.ch). 403 is transport blocking, not death, no demotion. | 2026-08-28 operator directive: promoted tier standard→essential; Heise Security and Inside-IT are operator-named critical sources and must be attempted every intel run (essential floor), not left to rotation; neither was attempted in the 2026-08-28 fire and heise last contributed 2026-06-20. | 2026-08-31 intel run: 3rd consecutive fire fully unreachable on every transport (S2/S3/S4 independently confirmed) - direct GET 403, trafilatura no readable body, jina reader relayed an upstream block/challenge, RSS path returned Cloudflare 526 (invalid origin SSL cert). Whole-host edge block, not a per-path issue. NOT demoted (transport block, hard rule); needs a new recipe or fetch_method: blocked if a 4th consecutive fire also fails. | 2026-09-01 intel run: S2 resolved this source cleanly on the first attempt (RSS feed HTTP 200, 20 dated items; article-detail extract worked beyond the free-preview paragraph before the subscriber paywall); the standing 3-consecutive-failure note from 2026-08-31 did not recur a 4th time. Failure counters reset; contributed the HWZ Payload data-publication update this run. | 2026-09-03 audit: whole-host HTTP 429 (rate-limited) on every transport this run (direct bridge, extract/jina, plain WebFetch), a new failure mode distinct from the prior paywall/403 conditions. 403/429 never demotes; not a recipe failure, monitor for recurrence. | 2026-09-04: RSS feed reachable (20 items) but article-body fetch still 429s ('Security Checkpoint', 3rd consecutive run); Insel Gruppe/ServiceNow backlog item remains unconfirmed. Not demoted, 403/429-class block, never a content-axis demotion trigger. | 2026-09-10 (S2): RSS feed and general article access continue to work cleanly (20 items, two new in-window articles read in full); the specific coverage_backlog.md article (insel-gruppe-verschiebt-wechsel-zu-servicenow-20260828) remains whole-host-unblocked but individually unreadable via every transport for an 11th+ consecutive fire. This is a persistent single-article dead end, not a source-level failure, no status/fetch_method change applied.